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Mullibok claimed he was the first person to settle the moon, forty years before 2369, after escaping from a Cardassianlabor camp and stowing away on a survey vessel exploring the system for possible mining sites. Initially facing starvation, he eventually managed to make the land farmable. Over the years, more people followed, reaching a total population of fifty by 2369.

Shortly after the liberation of Bajor, the Bajoran Provisional Government, with the help of the Federation, decided to utilize the moon's core to provide much-needed energy for Bajor. It was expected this could warm a few hundred thousand Bajoran homes in winter. However, this process would release carbon and sulphur compounds that would make the air unbreathable and thus leave the moon uninhabitable.

Forty-seven of Jeraddo's fifty inhabitants agreed to leave the moon and were relocated. Three people, however, refused to leave their home: Mullibok, Baltrim, and Keena. They had no contact with Bajor and were unaware that the Cardassians had left the system, several months earlier. After the Bajoran Militia attempted to remove them by force, Mullibok was injured. Without Mullibok to care for them, Baltrim and Keena were evacuated to Bajor. To force Mullibok to leave, MajorKira Nerys set his cottage on fire. Mullibok left and Jeraddo became uninhabitable. (DS9: "Progress")

According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 42), Jeraddo was classified as an M class moon. After the moon was converted into an energy-production facility, the classification for this moon was changed to class N. However, the book (p. 23) also lists the Lunar V/Bajor VIIe moon as being a class D body, the same class as Earth's moon, Luna.

Jeraddo was featured prominently in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Millennium novels, where one of the three Red Orbs was hidden on an old settlement on the moon, and was subsequently discovered by Sisko when a Cardassian scientist tries to acquire it.